Pieces of Lives, Pieces of Dreams
Pieces of Lives, Pieces of Dreams

Pieces of Lives, Pieces of Dreams

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1 hr 40 min

2012-06-02

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Algerian director Hamid Benamra turns his focus to Mustapha Boutadjine, a charming, mercurial collage artist in Paris whose very work methods embody resistance, and celebrate those who work to liberate others. Boutadjine creates his portraits of Third World artists such as Miriam Makeba, and Algerian figures such as Assia Djebar from pieces of paper torn from high end fashion magazines and other, glossy, glitzy publications. Using this material is as much an act of rejecting bourgeois standards, which are often anti-North African in France, as much as elevating these figures and making them the social and visual standard against which we should judge ourselves, not the runway models of Chanel.

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Mustapha Boutadjine

Mustapha Boutadjine

Self

Mahmoud Darwish

Mahmoud Darwish

Self

Angela Davis

Angela Davis

Self

Tommie Smith

Tommie Smith

Self

Miriam Makeba

Miriam Makeba

Self

Salah Teskouk

Salah Teskouk

Self

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